Content: Librettist Smith wrote that the plot was suggested by Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, which was incorporated into the secont act finale. The composer De Koven and librettist Smith attended public school together in Chicago and were also known for writing the musicals Robin Hood and Rob Roy.

Content: Lillian Russell dressed for her role Vera, a Russian gypsy in The Tzigane, produced by the Lillian Russell Opera Company, music by Reginald De Koven, libretto by Harry B. Smith.

Content: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.

Content: The operetta was performed at New York City's Abbey's Theatre May 16-June 15(?), 1895, and later toured cities in the United States, including Princeton, N.J., New Haven, Conn., Boston, Mass., Ithaca, N.Y., Pittsburgh, Penn., and Chicago, Ill. from Sept. 1895 to Jan. 1896. This is one of Russell's few appearances in an American operetta before 1900.

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1860: Creator Born

1895: Created

1936: Creator Died

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MLA Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division,
The New York Public Library. "Lillian Russell in the "Tzigane""
The New York Public Library Digital Collections.
1895.
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8ed2d27a-ad8b-0244-e040-e00a18060cfb

Chicago/Turabian Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division,
The New York Public Library. "Lillian Russell in the "Tzigane""
New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Accessed December 9, 2016.
http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8ed2d27a-ad8b-0244-e040-e00a18060cfb

APA Format

Billy Rose Theatre Division,
The New York Public Library.
(1895).
Lillian Russell in the "Tzigane"
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